Top Choice For 2200+ Websites and Apps

Protect Your Platform With Queue-Fair

Manage traffic peaks. Avoid website crashes from high demand. Treat your visitors with unrivalled fairness.

Queue-Fair is the original virtual waiting room for busy websites, invented by us and originally patented in 2004. When your site has more visitors than it can handle gracefully, the excess visitors are automatically sent away from your webservers to a branded online queue - it then sends visitors back to your site in first-come, first-served order at the rate that you desire.

We handle the world's largest queues. We queue hundreds of thousands of people every day.

Thousands of leading organisations trust Queue-Fair to stop their sites and apps crashing under load.

La Scala
HMV
DapperLabs
ABInBev
Madrid Government
Essent

By using the world's most accurate, highest quality, most powerful and best value Virtual Waiting Room platform, you ensure that your site can keep selling at its optimum transaction rate. Your site visitors, shoppers, ticket buyers, and app users always get the responsive experience they require, even when you are really busy. They won't see a crashed site.

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Traffic Peaks

Can traffic peaks cause problems for your website?

Even the world's biggest companies get overwhelmed by peaks in demand, particularly sudden peaks. Systems architects make decisions based on expected demand and usual traffic rates. It is usually not possible to scale the tech serving your site on demand to prevent a website crash. All webservers have limits, and when they are exceeded, your visitors experience a crashed site.

  • 86%  of enterprises report downtime costs of more than $300,000 per hour
    (Source: Statista)
  • 53%  of mobile website visitors will leave a page if they don't see a response within just 3 seconds
    (Source: Google)
  • Over 3 Hours 
    the average duration of a downtime or crashed site incident
    (Source: IT Process Institute)

Keep selling, regardless how busy your site gets!

Easy Integration

Add Queue-Fair to your site or app easily in minutes

Adapters in every major web server language. Secure Plugins for every major ecommerce platform. Or, add Queue-Fair to your site with JavaScript with one line of code on your page - or no lines at all with Google Tag Manager.

You can also run Queue-Fair at the Network-edge, running on your CDN or Cloud Services provider before requests reach your origin server.

Adapters available for your busy iOS, Android and React Native apps too.

Find out why Queue-Fair is the most widely-integrated queue platform on earth.

The original and leading Virtual Waiting Room

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The world's most advanced online queue solution

Enhancing web performance for:

Retail

Protect your e-commerce site from costly down time

Retail Retail

Queue-Fair helps you reach the customers that would be lost when your systems are overloaded, so your site or app can keep selling at its optimum transaction rate.

Ticketing

Sell all your tickets in one day safely and securely

Ticketing Ticketing

Prevent the dreaded Refresh Refresh Refresh that kills your servers and damages fan loyalty. Show them that you care about their experience with our fair queue.

Education

Cope gracefully with events, registrations and enrolments

Education Education

You needn't scale your systems just for one busy day a year. Queue-Fair is fair and transparent for your students - who can go away and come back later without losing their place.

Public Sector

Handle massive public demand effortlessly and safely

Public Sector Public Sector

Why stress out your IT department or your stakeholders? Conserve your resources and cope with any level of demand gracefully with Queue-Fair.

Frequently Asked Questions

Queue-Fair’s virtual waiting room acts as a protective buffer for your website or app during periods of high traffic, such as product launches, ticket sales, or limited-time offers. When visitor numbers surge beyond your site’s capacity, Queue-Fair automatically redirects excess users to a branded waiting room, ensuring that only a manageable number of visitors can access your website at any given time. This prevents server overload, slowdowns, and crashes, maintaining a smooth experience for everyone.

The system operates on a fair, first-in-first-out basis, so users are admitted in the order they arrived, which promotes transparency and trust. While in the waiting room, visitors can see their place in line and receive real-time updates, reducing frustration and uncertainty. You can also customize the waiting room with your branding, promotional messages, or important information, turning waiting time into an opportunity to engage your audience.

Queue-Fair is cloud-based and sits in front of your website, so it works regardless of your existing infrastructure or platform. It requires no code changes to your site and can be set up quickly. By controlling the flow of visitors, Queue-Fair ensures your core services remain available and responsive, even under extreme demand. This not only protects your site from downtime and lost revenue but also preserves your brand reputation by delivering a reliable and orderly experience to all users, even during the busiest events.

When your website reaches its maximum capacity with Queue-Fair, any additional visitors are automatically placed into a secure, virtual waiting room before they can access your site. This ensures your website remains stable, responsive, and performs optimally for active users. Visitors who arrive after capacity is reached are shown a customizable branded queue page, where they see their position in line, estimated waiting time, and real-time updates as their place advances. This transparent process reduces frustration and keeps visitors informed.

Queue-Fair manages the flow of traffic by only allowing new visitors to enter your website as space becomes available—such as when current users leave or complete their session. This prevents server overload, downtime, or slow performance, protecting your site’s reputation and providing a fair experience for all users. The system is fully automated, so you don’t need to manually monitor or intervene.

For visitors, the experience is straightforward: they simply wait in the virtual queue and are automatically redirected to your website when it’s their turn. They don’t need to refresh the page or worry about losing their place in line. Queue-Fair’s system also allows you to display important information, updates, or promotional messages on the queue page to keep users engaged while they wait. In summary, Queue-Fair ensures that every visitor is treated fairly and that your website remains accessible, even during periods of peak demand or high traffic, by managing entry in a controlled and orderly manner.

Yes, you can fully customize the appearance and messaging of the Queue-Fair virtual waiting room to match your brand and provide a seamless user experience. Queue-Fair offers a range of customization options, allowing you to tailor the waiting room’s look and feel, including your company logo, color scheme, background images, and fonts. This ensures that users see a consistent brand identity throughout their interaction with the queue.

In addition to visual customization, you have complete control over the messaging displayed to your users. You can edit the text shown on the waiting room page, such as welcome messages, estimated wait times, queue positions, and instructions for users. This flexibility enables you to communicate important information, set expectations, and even provide reassurance or promotional content while users wait.

Queue-Fair’s platform also supports custom CSS and HTML, so you can implement advanced styling or integrate additional elements like videos, links to FAQs, or contact information. You can update these settings in real-time via the Queue-Fair Portal, making it easy to adjust messaging or appearance as circumstances change—such as during high-demand sales, ticket releases, or special events.

This high level of customization ensures that the virtual waiting room feels like a natural extension of your website or app, helping to maintain user trust and satisfaction throughout their queuing experience. If you need assistance, Queue-Fair’s support team is available to help you achieve the exact look and messaging you want.

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